The impacts of welfare conditionality: sanctions support and behaviour change

Dwyer, P; Scullion, LC; Jones, K; McNeill, J; Stewart, ABR

Abstract

This book provides an original, empirically informed
understanding of the impacts, effectiveness and ethicality of welfare
conditionality at it plays out over time within the lives of a diversity of
welfare recipients. Utilising the qualitative, longitudinal dataset generated by the five year ESRC funded Welfare Conditionality project (which is unique in both its size and scope), the book offers analysis grounded in the understandings and experiences
of welfare service users subject to welfare conditionality to consider three core questions. First, how effective is conditionality in promoting and sustaining movements into paid work and/ or the cessation of problematic behaviour? Second, how is welfare conditionality perceived and experienced over time by welfare
recipients and what are its impacts on people’s circumstances, behaviour and opportunities? Third, under what circumstances (if any), and why, might the use of welfare conditionality be justified?

Citation

Dwyer, P., Scullion, L., Jones, K., McNeill, J., & Stewart, A. (in press). The impacts of welfare conditionality: sanctions support and behaviour change. Bristol: Policy Press

• Book Type: Authored Book
• Deposit Date: Sep 30, 2022
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Series Title: Welfare Conditionality
• ISBN: 9781447343738
• Publisher URL: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-impacts-of-welfare-conditionality
• Additional Information: Projects : Welfare Conditionality: Sanctions, Support and Behaviour Change